Emily Chun is a Seoul-born, New York-based writer. She has written about art for the Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, Frieze Week, ArtAsiaPacific, ArtReview, and has organized curatorial projects at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, and Tufts University Art Galleries.

She is pursuing her doctorate in art history at Stanford University, where she focuses on the relationship between sculpture of the 1980s & the era’s larger socioeconomic changes such as de-industrialization and the decline of the American middle class. Her work has been supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship in Art History.

She is a member of the curatorial team at Below Grand in NYC.

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One of many visits to the Jack Whitten retrospective at the MoMA, July 2025